paris riots
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To those who think these riots have in some way to do with “unchecked immigration of unskilled workers” as the cause of these disturbances – the majority of rioters aren’t immigrants, they’re 2nd and 3rd generation North Africans born and bred in Paris, put through the French education system.
I was there when the Bradford race riots swept through the communities I grew up in, and there were white northerners then who said “we should have never let them into this country”. Well fuck you. Both my grandparents fought for the British to defend their Empire during World War II, one of my grandparents was there during the liberation of Italy. The majority of immigrants who came in the 60s and 70s were in someway connected with administering the British empire or were cannon fodder in the British army – that’s the only reason they were allowed in.
France and Britain who are now complaining about race riots and “self-segregation” should maybe come to terms with the fact that they had empires all over the world only 40 years ago. Where their own citizens ran thiefdoms. The French were the worst in North Africa, where they completely unpicked Algeria’s institutions and built it from the ground up as just another province of mainland France. The only difference is that the hundreds of thousands of white French who lived in Algeria lived in the finest quarters of the city. Whilst the Algerians in France today, well let’s just say that Clichy-sous-Bois is hardly the Casbah.
I grew up in your typical northern working class town, complete with the Victorian terraces that are now the stereotyped residences of Pakistani’s in this country. Packed and overcrowded and 100% Pakistani was where I lived – and fucking grim. My uncle recently moved out of that area and moved into a nice suburban area - front and back garden, and a garage. 100% white that area. The only brown faces on that street are him and his family. They’ve had their windows broken FIVE times in the 4 months they’ve been there, by white youths from the area. He’s got young kids for fucks sake!I was glad when the Bradford riots happened here. I thought it was the Pakistani communities “Brixton” moment, release of the pressure valve, getting rid of some bad blood. What’s more, it was a sign of ownership. It was a declaration by the Pakis that this is our country, our communities, and we’re not scared of being sent-back to wherever we came from like our grandparents generation.
Most of you who don’t know what it’s like to be an ethnic minority will find it difficult to understand the anger and hate egendered in young men having to put up with the most insidious forms of racism. It’s the reason why I left Leeds to live in London. Cos I was sick of having to chose between going out in “white clubs” and “Paki clubs”; of working part-time in factories where the managers didn’t think twice in plastering BNP posters all over the factory floor (to the non-British, the BNP is the British neo-Nazi Party). And this is just my views, the most Anglocised of Pakis that I know.I don’t know how much of this applies to what’s happening in France now, but I’m making this as a general comment to those who say “they should all go back to where they came from if they don’t like it here”, like the giant idiot that is Jaz X.
//end rant
*waves to skt and lowimpakt